BeaIank | 1,676 Events Team · Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 Welcome back, warriors. I hope you enjoyed your break and rested your muscles. Because now we will resume our contest, and you will need to lay down the brawl and get them brains to work to solve the puzzling... SOLOMON'S KEY! Here are the rules for this skirmish: Play until Game Over Take your picture on the Game Over screen. Alternately, you may take your picture on the Title Screen if the Game Over screen disappears Highest score wins GENRE: Puzzle The contest ends Sunday, 07/09/23 at 11 PM VGS time. Your user name MUST be written or typed on a piece of paper and be in the picture for your score to be valid. The entire TV screen, or computer monitor if you are playing on an emulator, MUST be in the picture for the score to be valid. No partial screenshots will be considered or accepted. No screenshots by hitting "print screen" on a computer will be allowed. You must take a picture of your computer monitor. There may be instances where this will be acceptable, but it will be at the discretion of myself and the contest organizers. Also, the use of turbo controllers is forbidden, as well as any cheat codes, Game Genies, slow motion functions, or save states if playing on an emulator. Also, we will only be using NTSC systems for the contests. The use of PAL systems will NOT be allowed. Good luck everyone and have fun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeaIank | 1,676 Events Team · Posted July 2, 2023 Author Share Posted July 2, 2023 1st Gloves 469,990 2nd PII 417,810 3rd Dr. Morbis 207,870 4th Richardhead 145,140 5th mbd39 52,700 6th Bearcat-Doug 46,190 7th SuperJimtendo 29,880 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJimtendo | 1,210 Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 (edited) Score:29880 Edited July 3, 2023 by SuperJimtendo Score 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,116 Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 (edited) I've always loved this game, but man some of those rooms are tough. SCORE EDIT - This is all I have time for this week: 207,870 Edited July 9, 2023 by Dr. Morbis 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,087 Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 (edited) 59 minutes ago, Dr. Morbis said: I've always loved this game, but man some of those rooms are tough. Anyway, reserved for score... This is my pick for deepest, most complex game on the NES. Just the amount of secrets and shit is astounding. And yes it's also hard as hell. Edited July 2, 2023 by mbd39 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 12,231 Administrator · Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 469,990 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PII | 2,018 Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 2 hours ago, mbd39 said: 3 hours ago, Dr. Morbis said: I've always loved this game, but man some of those rooms are tough. Anyway, reserved for score... This is my pick for deepest, most complex game on the NES. Just the amount of secrets and shit is astounding. And yes it's also hard as hell. Totally. Complex/Deep/Secretive like Mighty Bomb Jack, except harder, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,116 Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 This may be the deadest contest thread of all time. I was just going to skip this week, but I might be able to finish second just by posting a score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,087 Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 2 hours ago, Bearcat-Doug said: This may be the deadest contest thread of all time. I was just going to skip this week, but I might be able to finish second just by posting a score. I was blaming 4th of July weekend for this thread being deader than usual. But only one score by Friday is pretty bad. I admit I haven't played yet. I'll definitely try to get in a score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,116 Posted July 7, 2023 Share Posted July 7, 2023 1 hour ago, mbd39 said: I was blaming 4th of July weekend for this thread being deader than usual. But only one score by Friday is pretty bad. I admit I haven't played yet. I'll definitely try to get in a score. I hadn't planned on playing this, but if I can get a top 5 score by just posting something Sunday, I might as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Morbis | 2,116 Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 Yeah, this is one of those old-school early NES games with a million super cryptic ways to get points that you can't really just "learn" on your own. Then combine that with the first week of July being one of the busiest weeks of the year (outside of Christmas) for most North Americans, and this is what you get. Anyway, I've put in my score for this week, so there's the target on my back for whoever has time, but I'm done... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,116 Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 9 hours ago, Dr. Morbis said: Yeah, this is one of those old-school early NES games with a million super cryptic ways to get points that you can't really just "learn" on your own. Then combine that with the first week of July being one of the busiest weeks of the year (outside of Christmas) for most North Americans, and this is what you get. Anyway, I've put in my score for this week, so there's the target on my back for whoever has time, but I'm done... I've never played this and it doesn't look like something I'd enjoy at all, but maybe I can do like last week and get a top 5 score just by making an attempt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,116 Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 46,190 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardhead | 2,925 Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 145,140 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NESfiend | 1,553 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Just got back to town and no copy of this game. Cant find the thing to load the SD card. Brutal when so few scores are up there. It will pick up next week with the holiday passed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 12,231 Administrator · Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 I always loved this game as a kid. Didn't do as well as I wanted to, but score updated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PII | 2,018 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 417,810 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,087 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 52,700 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,087 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 I waited until the last minute and that's all I had time for. I think I had over 800k when we played this last time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gloves | 12,231 Administrator · Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 11 minutes ago, mbd39 said: I waited until the last minute and that's all I had time for. I think I had over 800k when we played this last time. I've been really lax on the contest since moving, been going out to different places for dinner lately to try the local food since we had a few days of... not rain. Lol Nova Scotia is wet, bro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,087 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 On 7/2/2023 at 8:54 AM, SuperJimtendo said: Score:29880 Is that an unmodded top loader with jailbars that I see? Nice. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJimtendo | 1,210 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 2 hours ago, mbd39 said: Is that an unmodded top loader with jailbars that I see? Nice. A little something I found a few months back. Wasn't planning on getting one but you don't say no when you see one available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat-Doug | 5,116 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 8 hours ago, mbd39 said: 52,700 I thought I had a shot at the top 5 just by posting a score like last week, but you knocked me out right at the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbd39 | 2,087 Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 3 hours ago, Bearcat-Doug said: I thought I had a shot at the top 5 just by posting a score like last week, but you knocked me out right at the end. I almost didn't even play, but I'm glad I posted something at the last minute. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnpoly | 205 Posted July 12, 2023 Share Posted July 12, 2023 Hi everyone, long time no see! I beat Solomon's Key earlier this year for the very first time, my final score was 1,676,810. Too little too late though lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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